21 - The Universe

Author: Anja Heij

"The Universe is the Celebration of the Great Work accomplished."

The Universe card is a complement of the Fool card. Where the Fool came out of the womb to begin a new adventure, so dances the virgin on this card back into the womb of the Universe. She has reached inner wholeness, totality, paradise by overcoming duality (depicted by the snake), by actively giving herself to the world.

It will have a 6.5 meter (21 foot) mirror (Hubble's is 2.4 meters, or 8 feet), and will look at the Universe in the near- to mid-infrared, where cooler objects like planets, dust clouds, and ancient galaxies glow brightly.

The universe — a tweaked version of the usual Marvel continuity — will continue to fill itself out in the subsequent Ultimate Comics: Hawkeye six-issue miniseries (in comic shops Aug. 31), as well as Ultimate Comics: Spider-Man (Sept.